Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 21 (gar, shillings, alii, yongrave, ogenes, nat…). Matches are highlighted.
One word, good Citizens. Would you proceed especially against Caius Martius. Consider you what Services he ha done for his Country? What he cannot help in his Nature, you ac count a Vice in him: You must in no way say he is continued uetous. Well sir, what answer made the Belly. Your Bellies answer: What The Kingly crowned
will deny him: I'll have five hundred Voices of that found. Worthy Menenius Agrippa, one that hath all ways loved the people. Our business is not unknown to the Senate, they have had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do, w to now we'll show em in deeds: they say poor Suitors have strong breathes, they shall know we have
Full speech
One word, good Citizens. Would you proceed especially against Caius Martius. Consider you what Services he ha done for his Country? What he cannot help in his Nature, you ac count a Vice in him: You must in no way say he is continued uetous. Well sir, what answer made the Belly. Your Bellies answer: What The Kingly crowned head, the vigilant eye, The Counselor Heart, the Arm our Soldier, Our Steed the Leg, the Tongue our Trumpeter, With other Muniments and petty helps In this our Fabric, if that they— The former Agents, if they did complain, What could the Belly answer? you are long about it. I sir, well, well. It was and answer, how apply you this? I the great Toe? Why the great Toe? We have ever your good word. We may Sir if we will. Think you so? Which way do you judge my wit would fly. Therefore let him be Consul: the Gods give him joy, and make him good friend to the People. Amen, Sir: to my poor unworthy notice, He mocked us, when he begged our Voices. Not one amongst us, save your self, but says He used us scornfully: he should have showed us His Marks of Merit, Wounds received for's Country. And will deny him: I'll have five hundred Voices of that found. Worthy Menenius Agrippa, one that hath all ways loved the people. Our business is not unknown to the Senate, they have had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do, w to now we'll show em in deeds: they say poor Suitors have strong breathes, they shall know we have strong arms too. We cannot Sir, we are undone already. Care for us? True indeed, they never cared for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and their Storehouses crammed with Grain: Make Edicts for Usury, to support Usum rers; repeal daily any wholesome Act established against the rich, and provide more piercing Statutes daily, to chain up and restrain the poor. If the Wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us. Should by the Cormorant belly be restrained, Who is the sink a the body. Why that way? You are never without your tricks, you may, you may. Your own desert. You shall have't worthy Sir. And 'twere to give again: but it's no matter. So did we all. But come, let's home. Well, I'll hear it Sir: yet you must not think To fob off our disgrace with a tale: But an't please you deliver. We hope to find you our friend: and therefore give you our voices heartily. And I shall. Here sir, I'de have beaten him Like a dog, but for disturbing the Lords within. By my hand, I had thought to have stroken him with a Cudgel, and yet my mind gave me, his clothes made a false report of him. Nay, I knew by his face that there was something in him. He had fir, a kind of face me thought, I cannot tell how to term it. So did I, I'll be sworn: He is simply the rarest man in the world. Who my Master? Worth six on him. Faith look you, one cannot tell how to say that: for the Defence of a Town, our General is excellent. Come we are fellows and friends: he was ever too hard for him, I have herd him say so himself. And he had been Cannibally given, he might have boiled and eaten him too. And he's as Like to do't, as any man I can imagine. Why then we shall have a stirring World again: This peace is nothing, but to rust Iron, increase Tailors, and breed Ballad-makers. It's so, and as wars in some sort may be said to be a Rauishen, so it cannot be denied, but peace is a great maker of Cuckolds. And so did I. You'll see your Room embraced with fire, before You'll speak with Coriolanus. Howsoever you have been his Liar, as you say you have, I am one that telling true under him, must say you cannot pass. Therefore go back. It's a spell you see of much power: You know the way home again. What cause do you think I have to swooned? The worthy Fellow is our General. He's the Rock, The Oak not to be wind-shaken.
Plot summary
Plot — Coriolanus
The. citizens of Rome riot for corn. They insist that the patricians are hoarding the commodity, but Menenius Agrippa tells them a fable suggesting that the Senate has made an equitable distribution of what there is. The Senate grants the people tribunes to represent their interests, to the disgust of the patrician soldier Martius. ‘The Volsces put troops in-the field in an attempt to capture Roman territory. The Romans split their powers: the general Cominius takes on the attacking army under the Volscian commander Aufidius, while Martius and Titus Lartius attack the Volscian town of Corioles. Martius ventures alone into the town and is trapped when the gates close behind him. When he re-emerges, bleeding from the fight, he invigorates the troops and Corioles is conquered. He goes to relieve Cominius, while Titus Lartius finalizes the terms of the Roman occupation. Martius confronts Aufidius in single combat. They are long-time rivals who have sworn to fight to the death, but they are balked when Aufidius’ troops intervene to rescue him. Meanwhile, Aufidius realizes that he will never beat Martius in a fair fight: it will have to be by stealth. Martius, now surnamed Coriolanus, returns triumph to Rome, and is put forward for the consulship. By custom, he must humbly ask the consent of the people and show them his war-wounds. He is reluctant, partly through contempt for the plebeians and partly out of a concern that his valour might be misinterpreted as political ambition. Even so, he. undertakes the obligation and receives the people’s voices, but does not actually show the wounds. The Tribunes persuade the people to withdraw their votes, since it would not be in their best interests to have Coriolanus as head of state. When the Tribunes intervene to block his promotion, Coriolanus loses his temper and speaks to them in terms which exacerbate the situation. Cominius undertakes to get him to apologise, but Coriolanus — persuaded to comply only at the intervention of his mother, Volumnia — still cannot keep his temper, and the Tribunes banish him from Rome. Coriolanus goes to Aufidius’ house in Antium and is received. The Volsces are mobilizing a new army for a fresh attack on the Romans, and Aufidius splits his command with Coriolanus, who marches on Rome. When his victory seems certain, first Cominius and then Menenius entreat his clemency, but are refused. An embassy from Volumnia, his wife, and young son proves more effective, however: he decides to…